YSEC strives to (1) promote an awareness of the environment and climate justice, (2) educate and engage the Yale community through debates and advocacy, (3) advocate for ambitious university policy on sustainability, and (4) foster an energetic environmental community on campus. Key goals for the 2019-20 school year include working alongside the New Haven Climate Movement, hosting sustainability-themed events, expanding clean energy on campus, incubating new environmental initiatives, sending a delegation to the UN Conference of the Parties, launching an environmental humanities publication, and engaging in intersectional activism.

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Since 1986, YSEC and its constituent groups have worked to build an environmental community on campus, improve campus sustainability, encourage activism, hold Yale accountable, and carry out various environmental initiatives. It was a YSEC report authored at the turn of the 20th century, the Yale Green Plan, which led to the creation of the Yale Office of Sustainability. The president of Yale University, Peter Salovey, has credited work of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition as being “very influential in helping to establish the kinds of sustainability policies and organized effort around sustainability that we see on campus today.”

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As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, YSEC partners and networks with local and campus organizations, other colleges and universities, non-profits, and major international initiatives in order to carry out its mission at Yale, within New Haven, and around the world. YSEC connects students to opportunities, institutions, groups, and activities related to environment, at Yale and at large.

Our Social Calendar

Any suggestions for environmental events you want to see? Email our social chair, Nick, at nick.famularo@yale.edu

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Contact Us

Questions? Ideas? Want to get involved? Email us!

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You can also reach out to our Co-Presidents Zander De Jesus (Alexander.DeJesus@yale.edu) & Katie Schlick (Katie.Schlick@yale.edu) directly.